skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whenever a new technology emerges, along with it always emerge naysayers who claim that the new technology could never work

There's some survivorship bias going on here – you only consider technologies which succeeded, and find examples of people scrutinising them beforehand. However, we know that not every nascent technology blossoms; some are really effective, but can't find adopters; some are ahead of their time; some are cost-prohibitive; and some are outright scams.

It's not a given that every promising new technology is a penicillin – some might be Theranos.
yup, exact same here, glad to see my project helping others alike
Just tried the demo, this had zero effect on my brightness.
Video Game development throughout the 80s
Tried https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai and I believe it hung after the green loading bar completed. Left it for several minutes
thats unfortunate, whats the url? ill check it out
Topological Mechanics of Knots and Tangles
> modern AI is much smarter than a brown rat at some things (I don't think brown rats can pass the bar exam), but in other cases it becomes apparent that it isn't "intelligent" at all

There is no modern AI system that can go into your house and find a piece of cheese.

The whole notion that modern AI is somehow "intelligent", yet can't tell me where the dishwasher is in my house is hilarious. My 3 year old son can tell me where the dishwasher is. A well trained dog could do so.

It's the result of a nerdy definition of "intelligence" which excludes anything to do with common sense, street smarts, emotional intelligence, or creativity (last one might be debatable but I've found it extremely difficult to prompt AI to write amazingly unique and creative stories reliably)

The AI systems need bodies to actually learn these things.
They promise: "simple topological counting rules to predict the relative mechanical stability of knots and tangles, in agreement with simulations and experiments for commonly used climbing and sailing bends."
화이팅!

You've made some cool stuff, inspirational.
https://archive.is/aig3q
That's far down the line.

The examples in the article just store the document data in national database. In both examples (Finland and Singapore) you register online before the trip and then still show up with your passport.

Singaporeans just show up with their face because their face is already linked to their government ID, stored locally. This can be done by any country after pre-registering your regular passport.

All of this is trivial to implement. There's still no mention of full digital validation.
This is a fantastic and thought-provoking response.

Thinking of humans as fallible systems and humanity and its progress as a self-correcting distributed computation / construction system is going to stick with me for a long time.
>current AI should not be used for serious applications.

"If an an artificial person can do a job and make fewer mistakes than a real person, why not?"

Is the question everyone in business is asking.
yea i just checked the db, nothing there. thats weird, ill try loading it myself
Yes like gold, real estate, and also arguably the index fund investment (that everyone buys into via 401k).

All these investments are only worth anything if someone buys them from you at a higher value.

Yes you can generate revenue from these but looking at increases in P/E ratios and real estate prices / income growth tells the story that the increases are primarily fueled by inflation.

For example compare the pre-pandemic and post-pandemic rent for a given apartment and you will see if the "underlying investment" is providing increasing value or if the value is the same or less for an older building but inflation is propping it up.
When I go over my household budget I'd notice if I wasn't paying my mortgage even if someone deleted it from my spreadsheet. It's important enough to me that it's front of mind when I'm thinking about money. I expect to see it on the list. I'd look for it if it wasn't there. Salaries are apparently not that big of a deal in the same way so asking for a higher one seems like a good idea.
And take the fraudulent "open" out of their name. That douchebaggery sets a precedent that will no doubt run rampant.
It's becoming more predictive each year.
Oh I think I remember how this movie ends, everyone dies right?

Kidding aside, this seems like a ridiculous repeat of the events that led up to 2008, albeit in a slightly modified form. Why on Earth do we keep allowing this to happen?
yup, if you look at the backend its basically just a pipeline of information extracted from the file tree and readme using Claude 3.5 Sonnet, sick diagram tho
> One hopes the modern Russian military is less enthusiastic about such things

Given that they have just done it again, I’d bet they have plenty of enthusiasm.
>...developing software to align with the principle that impactful software systems need to be trustworthy, which implies their development needs to be managed, transparent and accountable.

The author severely discounts the value of opacity and unaccountability in modern software systems. Large organizations previous had to mitigate moral hazard with unreliable and burdened-with-conscience labor. LLM style software is superior on every axis in this application.
I’m interested in migrating over to Pilot. How is the migration process from bench? It seems we can do a data export in a few days. Can pilot do 2024 catch up?
exactly, this would be even more relatable to most of people, we are not living in Star Track where you don't have to make money to survive.
Really? I mean, I don't know a single person in real life who believes all this corporate bs. We know there must be a mission because this is the current business culture taught during MBA courses and everybody accepted it as a matter of course but I'm not even sure the CEOs themselves believe there is even one employee who is fascinated by its mission - say, a FedEx driver who admires the slogan "FedEx Corporation will produce superior financial returns for its shareowners by providing high value-added logistics, transportation and related business services".
> For example, the only effective way to get an AI not to talk about Bryan Lunduke is to have an external layer that scans for his name in the output of an AI, if found, stops the session and prints an error message instead.

> If you're willing to build systems around it (like we do with people) to limit it's side effects and provide sanity checks,

I don't think that comparison holds up. We do build systems around people, but people also have internal filters, and most are able to use them to avoid having to interact with the external ones. You seemed to state that AI's don't (can't?) have working internal filters and rely on external ones.

Imagine if everyone did whatever they wanted all the time and cops had to go around physically corralling literally everyone at all times to maintain something vaguely resembling "order." That would be more like a world filled with animals than people, and even animals have a bit more reasoning than that. That's where we are with AI, apparently.
>It doesn't look like one - it is one. > We’re excited to welcome the following new donors to OpenAI: ...

The story is that OpenAI worked out some equity conversion of the for-profit co for the donors to the non-profit. Elon Musk was the notable holdout. Elon was offered some unknown percentage for his ~$40 million donation but he refused.

Seems like the donors are ok with OpenAI pivot to for-profit ... except for Elon. So no bait-n-switch as seen from "insiders" perspective.

If you have information that contradicts that, please add to the thread.
I did something like that once too, a long time ago. And because of that I see syntax errors of such I’ll within seconds now, having learned once the hard way.
Wait, how is this input less funny? They are both silly nonsense words. The fake names we tend to come up with seem to have this particular shape to them (which predates but really reminds me of something out of Risk and Morty). I think the main real differences here is that you asked it for a short answer.

I wonder if it is fair to ask it more real-world-inspired questions? How about:

How do I enable a ggh connections on a Salinero webserver?

They are an Apache band. But (as far as I can tell) nobody has made software named after them.
No it isn't, because it is relevant to the question of whether the current approaches can be scaled 100x or 1000x.
Sorry you're downvoted, but I generally agree. When it comes to software, most organizations are Initech.
My problem occurred on an Intel NUC11TNK so it might be exactly the same issue as yours.
Deepseek completely changed the game. Cheap to run + cheap to train frontier LLMs are now in the menu for LOTs of organizations. Few would want to pay AI as a Service to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or anybody, if they can just pay few millions to run limited but powerful inhouse frontier LLMs (Claude level LLMs).

At some point, the now fully packed and filtered data required to train a Claude-level AI will be one torrent away from anybody, in a couple of months you could probably can pay someone else to filter the data and make sure it has the right content enabling you to get well the train for a claude-level inhouse LLM.

It seems the premise of requiring incredible expensive and time demanding (construction), GPU especialized datacenters is fading away, and you could actually get to the Claude-level maybe using fairly cheap and outdated hardware. Quite easier to deploy than cutting edge newer-bigger-faster GPUs datacenters.

If the near future advances hold even more cost-optimization techniques, many organizations could just shrugg about "AGI" level - costly, very limited - public offered AI services, and just begin to deploy very powerful -and very affordable for organizations of certain size- non-AGI inhouse frontier LLMs.

So OpenAI + MS and their investments could be already on their way out of the AI business by now.

If things go that way - cheaper, "easy" to deploy frontier LLMs - maybe the only game in town for OpenAI could be just to use actual AGI (if they can build it, make it to that level of AI), and just topple competitors in other markets, mainly replacing humans at scale to capture reveneau from the current jobs of white collar workers, medics from various specialties, lawyers, accountants, whatever human work they can replace at scale with AGI, for a lower cost for hour worked than it could be payed to a human worker.

Because, going to "price war" with the inhouse AIs would probably mean to actually ease their path to better inhouse AIs eventually (even if just by making AI as a service to produce better data with they could use to train better inhouse claude-level frontier LLMs).

It is not like replacing onpremise datacenters with public cloud, because by using public cloud you can't learn how to make way cheaper onpremise datacenters, but with AGI AI level services you probably could find a way to make your own AGI AI (achieving anything close to that - claude-level AIs or better- would lead your organization to lower the costs of using the AGI AI level external services)
Where do you think common sense, emotional intelligence, creativity, etc. come from? The spirit? Some magic brain juice? No, it comes from neurons, synapses, signals, chemicals, etc.
Is this sarcastic? There is still lots of piracy, and streaming services that made it more convenient to consume content, like Netflix and Spotify did far more to reduce piracy than DMCA did.

And quite a few people have gone to jail, including for creating ways to circumvent DRM, which wasn't illegal before DMCA.
This is terrible. I paid them ~$4500 to do all my taxes and book keeping (just started my business this past June). What recourse do I have to get that money back?
I don't think this is true, unless perhaps if you use a very narrow definition of 'inherent'.
e.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3150158/

Reduces mortality, increases happiness, cardiovascular health, etc.
According to the latest reporting, the actual flight deviated from the advance flight plan by hundreds of miles. I don't know the regs in that region, but I suspect that IFR flight plans must declare an alternate, and it's unclear if it was Makhachkala and, if so, why they crossed the sea instead.

That seems to have been the real problem. Russia was not anticipating airline traffic there. Sounds like there has been fairly active drone activity in that area.

update: Another comment suggested a plausible different order of events: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42521882
This might help https://x.com/karpathy/status/1870692546969735361
There's a lot of confusing info about that incident still. You typically do not get to fly for 2 hours after an AD hit (if that's what it was), nor can you actually make several attempts at landing. In this case there were several video recordings from the inside while the plane was already in distress. Not one said anything about AD hit. Nor did the pilots say anything about that. In some photos you can also see the holes petaling _outward_ indicating either a straight-through penetration, or internal explosion. The whole thing is confusing AF, and people are jumping to conclusions. The only thing I can think of is perhaps some sort of an AD cannon shot at it, but even then e.g. Pantsir AD cannon (if that's what it was) would almost certainly be loaded with HE or fragmentation rounds (which wouldn't penetrate straight-through), and the altitude would have to be sub-4km. What looks pretty certain is that it wasn't a "missile". Most likely the plane would disintegrate in the air in this case, and if not, we'd know from the people inside the plane.
they get a lot of shit because most youtubers would be forced to hand over their pii (name and address) to the reporter. Some reporters are doing this solely to get that information (stalkers, doxxers, etc).

It's unclear, to me, if youtubers could proxy this through an attorney.
I absolutely love Niri. It has a built-in screen capture which is good enough for me. Screensharing works fine from Firefox (which is where I do all of my video conferencing). I stopped using multiple screens a long time ago, but I do occasionally hook my laptop up to my TV, and that works out of the box. Though, for stuff like that, I might log into to a Gnome + PaperWM session simply because I don’t remember how to fiddle with things, and I’m not generally trying to optimize for my workflow when I’m giving a live talk or watching TV.
Deepseek v3 is ~1$ for 1M tokens (cheaper at the moment). It is comparable to Sonnet in performance

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news1226
As evident by most to all the "AI-hiring platforms", it's not about solving a problem successfully, but using the latest moniker/term/sticker to appear as if you solve the problem successfully.

In reality, neither the client nor the user base have access to the ground truth of these "AI system"s to determine actual reliability and efficiency.

That's not to say there aren't some genuine ML/AGI companies like DeepMind (which solve specific narrow problems with quite high confidently), but most of the "AI" companies feel like they are coming from Crypto and are now selling little more than vaporware in the AI gold rush.
I am a simple man. In 2022 I glanced trough Attention is all you need and forgot about it. A lot of people made money. A lot of people believed that the end of programmers and designers is absolute. Some people on the stage announced The death of coding. Others bravely explored the future in which people are not needed for creative work.

Aside of the anger that this public stupidity produced in me, I always knew that this day will come.

Maybe next time someone will have the balls not to call a text-generator's with inherent hallucination Intelligence? Who knows. Miracles can happen.:)
I mean, both are based on economic value. If the economic value of all human work was $200 billion, they could be taken to basically say the same.
An end-to-end example of a single question would be helpful to see.
Complain and Propose (2014)
Matt Mullenweg Asks What Drama to Create in 2025, Community Reacts
True, but that just goes to show how brittle these models are - how shallow the dividing line is between primary facts present (hopefully consistently so) in the training set, and derived facts that are potentially more suspect.

To make things worse, I don't think we can even assume that primary facts are always going to be represented in abstract semantic terms independent of source text. The model may have been trained on a fact but still fail to reliably recall/predict it because of "lookup failure" (model fails to reduce query text to necessary abstract lookup key).
An LLM isn't providing its "best" prediction, it's providing "a" prediction. If it were always providing the "best" token then the output would be deterministic.

In my mind the issue is more accountability than concerns about quality. If a person acts in a bizarre way they can be fired and helped in ways that an LLM can never be. When gemini tells a student to kill themselves, we have no recourse beyond trying to implement output filtering, or completely replacing the model with something that likely has the same unpredictable unaccountable behavior.
Ghost jobs – 7 in 10 hiring managers consider them morally acceptable
The New York Times has no idea of my tastes in music, and no idea of your tastes either. This is just one of those "this is what everybody else likes, so you should like it too" kind of things. Kinda like, if all the songs on pop media sound the same, and it's all boring, why is it popular? Marketing!
In actuality fiat currency makes everything a pyramid scheme and allows the government to spend the wealth of the nation in whichever manner it deems fit, since the value of inflation accrues disproportionately to the asset owner (aka people who were there before you, aka pyramid scheme) vs. the earning productive class.
People hallucinate as well
“No” is the minimal correct answer though, right? You can’t enable any type of whatever on a non-existence type of connection.
Absolutely yes. Ridiculous for you and me, and absolutely perfect for multi billion dollar corporations to “protect” their profit streams.
I mostly agree with you, especially for OLED. The use of "pentile", vert RGB, RGBY, and RGBW of various rotations makes it a pain. However, they already do super-resolution, transport compression, local dimming and other tricks in the display driver/TCONs. So something like this might be done locally, but you might also end up with weird results since just a couple of days ago a web demo on HN managed to screw up LCD pixel inversion. It's a case where there's rarely enough profit margin in doing something right in HW, while it can be done correctly in SW.
Completely missing the point.

We don't care what LLMs have to say, whether you cut back some of it or not it's a low effort wasted of space on the page.

This is a forum for humans.

You regurgitating something you had no contribution in producing, which we can prompt for ourselves, provides no value here, we can all spam LLM slop in the replies if we wanted, but that would make this site worthless.
chrome is a child's toy with MV3. lmk when it's in a real browser!
The politicking does not bode well for OpenAI.
*russian missiles
The past couple of times look likely to be legitimate confusion, probably coupled with a lack of care. In the KAL shootdowns, the Soviets intercepted, saw that they were airliners, and shot them down anyway.
I believe you're asking the wrong question, or at least you're asking it in the wrong way. From my POV, it comes in two parts:

1. Do you believe that LLMs operate in a similar way to the important parts of human cognition?

2. If not, do you believe that they operate in a way that makes them useful for tasks other than responding to text prompts, and if so, what are those tasks?

If you believe that the answer to Q1 is substantively "yes" - that is, humans and LLM are engaged in the same sort of computational behavior when we engage in speech generation - then there's presumably no particular impediment to using an LLM where you might otherwise use a human (and with the same caveats).

My own answer is that while some human speech behavior is possibly generated by systems that function in a semantically equivalent way to current LLMs, human cognition is capable of tasks that LLMs cannot perform de novo even if they can give the illusion of doing so (primarily causal chain reasoning). Consequently, LLMs are not in any real sense equivalent to a human being, and using them as such is a mistake.
> hold onto the revenue until the dispute is resolved

They do that: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7000961?hl=en
in reality the question is more so, can the AI do a "good enough" job to not be noticeably worse than a real person?
humanity benefactor CEOs can get fired out of the blue
Online dating: Is the holiday season also cuffing season?
That's a hardware question, not a software question, but it is a fair question.

I don't know if the hardware can be scaled up. That's why I wrote "if we're able to scale them" at the root of this thread.
That came as news to me. Some fly at 11200m/37,000 feet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_by_flight_heig...
Someone made a comment here regarding magic recently that this reminded me of.

Sometimes you can make something appear magical by spending far more time on the effect than anyone would ever think to do.

Stunning work. I admire and envy the focus.
It comes from billions of years of evolution, the struggle to survive and maintain your body long enough to reproduce.

"Neurons, synapses, signals, chemicals" are downstream of that.
Does anyone have experience with Kick.co? It seems more self-managed with AI. I don’t want to migrate to another company that’s just going to close again despite being well funded.

7 years with bench and just renewed the annual plan last month. Seems like it’s unlikely we’ll see any refund for the 11 months remaining. Very frustrating to have to mirage somewhere else and pay for 2024 catch up.
While a plant growing in shade might grow slower than a plant growing in sunlight, a part of a plant growing in shade will grow faster than the parts growing in sunlight (mechanically, this is done using auxin plant hormones[0]). This is how a plant is able to "chase" sunlight. Picture a flower growing vertically with one half shaded, the other half sunned. If the sunny side grew faster, it would become longer than the shady side, causing it to curve into the shade, potentially killing the plant. Instead, the shady side "pushes" the plant into the sun.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxin
> The only way to actually become good is to ask the universe (and its Creator)

In your view, what the purpose of human life?

In my view, our purest purpose is to be happy and help others achieve happiness. Good things drive that.

In this context, an actively benevolent deity should naturally be drawn into lives. A disconnected or antagonistic deity would not.
The airport wasn’t exactly closed. Due to weather conditions they simply couldn’t do visual approach. There was no ILS and GPS was jammed, so they had to be diverted. And after they were hit it was too dangerous to use any nearby airport in the mountain zone, even if the weather was fine (they checked Mahachkala and decided against it). Aktau was a really good choice.
They are still a statistical machines, without any ability for actual comprehension and interpretation. They try to give an output that statistically matches best the question/task - regardless of the correctness of it.

It gets very obvious (and annoying) when you ask some not trivial technical questions.
My understanding was the non-profit would own a for-profit, but this seems to be going the other way to have a for-profit to own a non-profit?
When I look at current conflicts, I’m not sure that the Geneva convention features anywhere in anyone’s thought processes.